Chris Mayo (pictured), director, Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA), international consulting group at Towers Watson, said: “Multinational organisations often struggle with delivering quality employee benefits programmes due to insufficient local-country HR functions, and little or no availability of local benchmarking data on employee benefit packages.

“This is especially true in the EMEA region where there are numerous countries and where many multinationals have relatively low staff numbers, making it difficult for multinationals to justify having dedicated HR capabilities in each market.”